Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
I remember people telling me it took a long time for wow to get its current system.

When xiv re-released, wows system hadn't come out yet. When glamour released, I still don't think it had.

If something isn't planned for originally, it takes much much longer to make it work in the constraints of a games systems.

They probably whipped up the dresser as an interim because it was the easier of the 2 to tackle, and would provide some relief.
WoW had transmog in 2011. It's been refined along the way but it already had the system before XIV was re-released. Now that is 7 years after WoW came out, so it wasn't something that was there from the get-go.